[UA] gators

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 04:12 PM 11/09/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Everyone seems to think that all Florida is is rednecks and 'gators, that
is just not >true. We also have really old people and theme parks as far as
the eye can see. Actually, I >once watched an alligator climb my aunt's
fence in an attempt, we guess, to eat her baby >daughter. Luckily he wasn't
very good at it so by the time he was over we were all >comfortably inside
and on the phone with animal control.

I remember an Elmore Leonard novel -- I think it was "Maximum Bob" -- set
in Florida.  It was only okay, but the scene with the alligator was pretty
good.  Basically you had this cop dealing with a gator that had wandered
into someone's back yard, and he explained that "The thing about gators is,
their skin is thick enough to blunt the force of a lot of gunshots.  Just
bruises 'em and makes 'em testy."  He wound up having to approach it from
behind, basically straddle the thing, and put the barrel of his gun right
to its skull.

-G.

Who knows the difference between a crocodile and an alligator.

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